Geoff Keighley’s Mojave Desert Tease Sparks Bloodborne 2 Frenzy

Geoff Keighley’s mysterious Mojave statue has detonated the rumor mill, shifting chatter from God of War and The Elder Scrolls 6 to fever-pitch bets on Bloodborne 2 from FromSoftware.

Geoff Keighley knew exactly what he was doing. Drop a creepy, cryptic statue in the Mojave and let the internet devour itself for a week. And here we are: a desert monolith, a redacted tease, and a fanbase that really, really wants this to be Bloodborne 2.

So what is this desert statue everyone is freaking out about?

Keighley posted a photo of a grotesque-looking monolith half-buried in the sand outside Joshua Tree with the caption:

"regal.inspiring.thickness"

Not super helpful. Then it got weirder. People who trekked out there swear the thing has red, vein-like tendrils that pulse at night and it gives off unsettling sounds. Promo art you can hear is a new one.

The redacted hint that lit the fuse

The official Game Awards X account followed up on December 5 with this message:

"The █████ are silent. █████ bleeds. New █████ stir."

One unredacted word — "bleeds" — was all it took. Bloodborne fans immediately started filling in the blanks themselves with guesses like "The howls are silent. The hunter bleeds. New nightmares stir." and "The hunters are silent. Yharnam bleeds. New beasts stir." It does not take a lore scholar to see where that energy is pointed.

What it probably is (and what it definitely isn’t)

There have been a lot of guesses since the statue first showed up. Some of them are already dead on arrival, and a few are gaining momentum for good reason:

• Not God of War: Santa Monica Studio’s Cory Barlog popped into a livestream chat to say the statue has nothing to do with God of War. The "desert means Egypt" theory can rest.
• Not Diablo 4 or The Elder Scrolls 6: Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier shut those two down on the ResetEra forums and added that whatever this is, it’s worth staying up to see announced, calling it "a good one."
• Why Bloodborne 2 keeps coming up:
  - The Game Awards’ redacted line uses "bleeds," which is catnip for Bloodborne speculation.
  - Fans are already writing faux taglines with "hunters," "Yharnam," and "beasts," because of course they are.
  - FromSoftware has announced something at The Game Awards every year since 2022.
  - The studio also has another unannounced project in the works, codenamed FMC, per reporting from MP1st.
  - People are openly invoking Miyazaki’s name like it’s Beetlejuice. The vibes are strong.
• It’s a very deliberate tease: This whole monolith stunt is vague enough to be anything, elaborate enough to feel expensive, and perfectly timed to drive everyone feral right before the show.
• Timing: The Game Awards go live on December 11. If there’s a stage for a FromSoftware mic drop — maybe even a PlayStation-backed Bloodborne sequel — that’s the one.

Where this leaves us

Right now we’ve got a spooky art installation in the Mojave, a redacted sentence that basically screams "Bloodborne" without saying it, hard denials on God of War, Diablo 4, and Elder Scrolls 6, and a track record that makes a FromSoftware reveal feel very plausible.

Could it all be misdirection? Absolutely. But Keighley wanted hype; he got a feeding frenzy. If a hunter coat hits that stage on December 11, you’ll hear the yell from space.